Table of Contents

This study is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA
is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).

Multiple Cause of Death, 1968-1973 (ICPSR 3905)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics

Summary:

This data collection presents information about the causes
of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico,
the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa during 1968 through 1973.
Data are provided concerning underlying causes of death, multiple
conditions that caused the death, place of death, residence of the
deceased (e.g., region, division, state, county), whether an autopsy
was performed, and the month and day of the week of the death. In
addition, data are supplied... (more info)

This data collection presents information about the causes
of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico,
the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa during 1968 through 1973.
Data are provided concerning underlying causes of death, multiple
conditions that caused the death, place of death, residence of the
deceased (e.g., region, division, state, county), whether an autopsy
was performed, and the month and day of the week of the death. In
addition, data are supplied on the sex, race, age, marital status,
education, usual occupation, and origin or descent of the
deceased. The multiple cause of death fields were coded from the
MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES,
INJURIES, AND CAUSE-OF-DEATH, EIGHTH REVISION (ICD-8), VOLUMES 1 AND
2.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death, 1968-1973. ICPSR03905-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-05-15. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03905.v2

Universe:
All recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto
Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam during 1968-1973.

Data Types:
administrative records data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) Per agreement with NCHS, ICPSR distributes the
data files and text of the technical documentation for this collection
as prepared by NCHS. (2) The codebooks, frequencies, record layouts,
appendices, and geographical code outlines are provided by the data
producer as Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Methodology

Data Source:

United States Standard Certificate of Death

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2004-01-30

Version History:

2007-05-15 Setup files have been created.

2006-01-18 File CB3905.ALL.PDF was removed from any
previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will
accompany all downloads.